Mrs Mabel Tuke

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Tuke#/media/File:Mabel_Tuke_1909_by_Christina_Broom.jpg
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Family information: Father a clerk in the Royal Engineers. She married a South African in 1901 but returned to England when her husband died shortly afterwards.

Additional Information: Mabel was introduced to the WSPU by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and joined in 1906, becoming its honorary secretary until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Mabel was very close to WSPU leaders Emmeline Pankhurst (who nicknamed her 'Pansy' after a flower) and Christabel Pankhurst. In 1911, Mabel Tuke took part in the suffrage boycott of the goverment's census survey by 'evading' census officials. In March 1912, Mabel threw a stone, with Emmeline Pankhurst, through a window where the Prime Minister lived at 10 Downing Street. She was arrested and sent to prison for three weeks. However, she was dismissed because her health badly deteriorated, and she left the country for South Africa to recover.

Other Suffrage Activities: Mabel stayed close to the Pankhursts after the First World War. She visited Christabel Pankhurst (in France) often, and in 1925, Mabel, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst started an English teashop business in France by the sea. Mabel put most of her money into it and did all the baking. Sadly, the teashop wasn't very successful.